Airdate: 10/7/76
Two equally-weighted
plots here. In the first, Jason’s scholarship is cancelled and he must may
tuition payments on his own; to the disapproval of his mother and grandma, he
takes a job at the Dew Drop Inn, a roadhouse bar, and uses the experience to
coax country singer Red Turner (from “The Gift”) to return to music after the
tragic death of his son. In the other story, Yancy Tucker asks to stay with the
Waltons, claiming his house is now home to a skunk – they later find out he is
hiding from Cissy Webster, a Dew Drop In waitress he proposed to but is now
afraid of committing to. Facing the music, and the reality that marriage will
require compromise on his part, he accepts his conjugal fate, and kisses his
bachelorhood goodbye.
First appearance
of the Dew Drop Inn is another Waltons milestone.
Guest actor Merle Haggard is appropriately understated as Red Turner, a role he
replaces Ken Swofford in, who played Red in episode 2.18: “The Gift.” (It’s
certainly worth the price of admission to hear Merle sing at the end.)
Earl tells us that
it is now sometime in 1937.
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